Born in 1990 in Aichi, Nagata Kosuke is based in Kanagawa. Through photography, moving image, and installation, his practice explores the self and the other, nature and culture, the body and the environment, and other binary oppositions that undergird modern thinking, and their latent ambiguity. His recent work has focused on video essays and performances in the form of meal courses, reflecting on how food culture shapes national identity, the body techniques and power relations contained within table manners, and the control of animal and plant life in food production. Nagata’s major solo exhibitions include “Eat” (gallery αM, Tokyo, 2020) and group exhibitions include “Seeing as though touching: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 19” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2022) and the Aichi Triennale (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 2019).